Last weekend was the second most enjoyable one I believe I've ever spent. The first was my honeymoon of course. Last weekend I spent Friday learning how to shoot a submachine gun and spent Saturday and Sunday learning how to shoot my Glock 30.
The subgun course was the free one offered by Front Sight. I posted about it in the full auto forum.
I spent Saturday and Sunday learning how to properly shoot my Glock. Both days were filled with lectures, dry practice, hot practice, and plenty of direct guidance from the six instructors for my class of about twenty five shooters. I have been around guns for a long time and thought I had a pretty good idea of how to use them. I was wrong. From the Saturday morning lecture, to the close of class Sunday, I learned continuously. When the front sight flew off of my Glock 30, the staff was ready with a Glock 21 to allow me to finish the course. The instructors were polite, precise, and knew how to push the class hard enough to achieve maximum results without leaving anyone behind. I worked hard at concentrating (something I'm rather inept at) on the procedures as taught and dry practiced in the evenings in my hotel room. At the end of Sunday, we were given one final drill - from the holster - double tap to the thoracic cavity - failure to stop - one shot to the cranial occular cavity. I completed it perfectly. I wasn't the fastest in the class, but I followed the taught procedures and walked away knowing that I have the tools to become as fast as I possibly can while not endangering either myself with improper gun handling or others by sending errant rounds down range.
I cannot reccomend the Front Sight curriculum or staff highly enough. The facility they are in the process of building are definitely first rate too.
The subgun course was the free one offered by Front Sight. I posted about it in the full auto forum.
I spent Saturday and Sunday learning how to properly shoot my Glock. Both days were filled with lectures, dry practice, hot practice, and plenty of direct guidance from the six instructors for my class of about twenty five shooters. I have been around guns for a long time and thought I had a pretty good idea of how to use them. I was wrong. From the Saturday morning lecture, to the close of class Sunday, I learned continuously. When the front sight flew off of my Glock 30, the staff was ready with a Glock 21 to allow me to finish the course. The instructors were polite, precise, and knew how to push the class hard enough to achieve maximum results without leaving anyone behind. I worked hard at concentrating (something I'm rather inept at) on the procedures as taught and dry practiced in the evenings in my hotel room. At the end of Sunday, we were given one final drill - from the holster - double tap to the thoracic cavity - failure to stop - one shot to the cranial occular cavity. I completed it perfectly. I wasn't the fastest in the class, but I followed the taught procedures and walked away knowing that I have the tools to become as fast as I possibly can while not endangering either myself with improper gun handling or others by sending errant rounds down range.
I cannot reccomend the Front Sight curriculum or staff highly enough. The facility they are in the process of building are definitely first rate too.